Backwards, I tell you

Scary stat from yes­ter­day’s Good Weekend:

Per­cent­age of col­lege-edu­cated US women who changed their name after mar­riage in 2000: 23
Per­cent­age in 1990: 17

Am I the only person who is ter­ri­fied by this? [1]

[1] Dis­claimer: I am not per­son­ally attack­ing any of you who have chosen to do this. This is my opin­ion. No, I’m not count­ing cool entire-family name changes like sil­verblue and brandtot­ter or name-mer­gers like demiurgically_m and Craig.